Qu\u00e9rard, II, 188 ; DSB, XI, 230-233.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition of the French translation.<\/span><\/p>\n This is the work of the translator Antoine-L\u00e9onard Ch\u00e9zy (1775-1832), it is taken from Silvestre de Sacy’s Chrestomathie arabe,<\/i> with passages printed in Arabic characters. Al-Quazwini (ca. 1203 -1283), Arab man of letters, jurist, cosmographer and geographer.<\/p>\n His work on the Merveilles de la nature et des singularit\u00e9s des choses cr\u00e9\u00e9es<\/i> is his main writing and concerns all earthly matters: mineral elements, plants, beasts and men, following a first one on celestial matters.<\/p>\n “For his treatise on cosmography al-Quazwini cited more than a hundred written and oral sources, including : Aristotle, Ptolemy, Dioscorides, Balinas, al-Jahiz, al-Razi, Ibn Sina, al-Biruni, Abu Hamid al-Gharnati, the Koran and the Hadith, the Torah” (DSB).<\/p>\n “Dans ce trait\u00e9, al-Qazw\u00een\u00ee a voulu rassembler, selon les r\u00e8gles et le go\u00fbt de l\u2019adab, les connaissances de ses pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseurs sur le cosmos, les rendre attrayantes et accessibles au plus grand nombre. Sa cosmogonie s\u2019inscrit dans le souci d\u2019encyclop\u00e9disme de l\u2019\u00e9poque et dans la volont\u00e9 de pr\u00e9server et de transmettre un patrimoine culturel menac\u00e9 par les invasions destructrices des Mongols. En citant quelque cinquante auteurs, il nous a effectivement permis d\u2019avoir connaissance de fragments de textes disparus depuis lors” (expositions.bnf).<\/p>\n This work was a real bestseller and led to numerous Persian, Turkish and European translations. In translating his work, Sylvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), the undisputed master of oriental studies in Europe and holder of the Arabic and Persian chairs at the Coll\u00e8ge de France, was one of the main promoters of the riches of Arab civilisation.<\/p>\n “Pour des g\u00e9n\u00e9rations de lecteurs, l\u2019Orient commen\u00e7ait avec la Chrestomathie arabe de Silvestre de Sacy. Les pages choisies pour cette anthologie, compos\u00e9es \u00e0 Bagdad, au Caire ou d\u2019autres lieux du monde arabo-musulman, incitaient en effet \u00e0 d\u00e9couvrir des aspects connus ou peu connus d\u2019une civilisation fascinante et diverse” (puf.com).<\/p>\n Provenance : Autograph signature on the title of Jean Duchesne a\u00een\u00e9, and handwritten mention on the title page: This volume was given to me by the author. Jean Duchene (1779-1855), was curator of the cabinet des estampes of the national library, and son of the naturalist Antoine-Nicolas Duchesne (1750-1818).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 8vo (197 x 124 mm) 148 pp. Contemporary tree-calf, gilt roulette in frame, flat spine gilt, red morocco spine labels, speckled edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":75078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[552],"product_tag":[1254,1450],"class_list":{"0":"post-75087","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-travel","7":"product_tag-arabic","8":"product_tag-first-edition","9":"pa_auteur-kazwini-mohammed-ben-mohammed-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Mohammed ben Mohammed KAZWINI","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, J.J. Marcel pour imprimerie imp\u00e9riale, 1805","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n